infinite danger
Chapter 46 How does it feel to be sold by an NPC?
The herd of deer by the lake was frightened by the movement of the piranhas, screamed in panic, spread their feet and fled crazily.
If there was a Supernova Forest Games, these sika deer might win the championship.
But everyone has no time to appreciate the vigorous pace of these athletes, because they are facing a severe test of life and death.
All the piranhas crawling on the ground stood up. The flower stems were a low-key dead wood color, but the inside of the huge petals was bright orange-red, and a special stench emanated from their large predators.
These piranhas are tall and huge, with their bodies stretched to nearly three meters, like a flexible python.
They even act like snakes when they prey, first arching the flower stalks and then striking out.
They have no eyes, and do not know how to tell the position of living things.
"Run separately! Run out of the hunting range of the piranhas!" The captain held a curved sickle, and sprinted loudly to evacuate the team.
Everyone had already reacted, and it was too late to pack up the package, grab what they could carry, and escape as quickly as possible.
A rotten stench gradually approached, and immediately, Ji Siwei felt a gust of gorilla wind passing by his side.
He glanced sideways, and saw two plump stamens coming from behind at a very fast speed, engulfing the villager named Ah San who was running beside him, and dragging him back quickly.
There was a scream that sent chills down the spine, and then they heard the sound of bones breaking.
"Asan!"
Ah Er snorted, gritted his molars, and drew out two arrows, aiming at the stamens that bound Ah San while running.
"call out--"
A sharp arrow flew out, hitting one of the stamens.
Dark green juice seeped from the stamens, corroding the entire metal arrow in an instant.
The speed at which the stamen dragged Ah San did not decrease at all.
The piranha juice is so corrosive, which means that ordinary sharp weapons are useless to it, and it is dangerous to be splashed by the juice.
"Ah Er, don't do useless work, run away!" The captain's voice was hoarse, and he shouted at Ah Er with all his strength: "Run!"
Ah Er was about to bite his back molars to pieces, put away his bow and arrows with red eyes, and ran wildly.
With the help of the little puppet, Ji Siwei's wheelchair broke through the limit speed again, rushed out of the hunting range of the piranha, made a beautiful drift and turn on the grass, and came to a steady stop.
Ji Siwei looked up at the group of cannibal flowers——
The two piranhas that had preyed on them were lying on the ground, entering a state of digestion, and the several piranhas on the same root did not move, as if they were defending.
Only three piranhas are still attacking wildly.
The desire to survive drives everyone to run as fast as they can.
Ah Ming and the little mute chose a good direction at the beginning, they were no longer within the attack range of the piranha, but a little far away from Ji Siwei.
Wang Yiyi ran too fast, tripped over her ankle by a knotted weed that was too long, and fell heavily on the grass.
The piranha turned sharply, opening its predators and attacking her.
According to Wang Yiyi's usual character design, at this time she should be panicked, trembling with fright, crying for help.
But she didn't shed a single tear, and at the moment of life and death, she turned over neatly and avoided the attack of the piranha.
The piranha hit the air with one blow, gnawed a mouthful of grass, and lay down on the ground in a daze.
Hope Yiyi didn't waste a second, seized the opportunity and quickly escaped from danger.
At the moment of life and death, any pretense will be exposed.
"Fatty, why are you running faster than me?"
Li Yin managed to get to a safe place, sweating profusely, and asked out of breath.
The fat man in the ball uniform had an invariable smile on his face, only staring at Li Yin's flushed face with salivating eyes, without saying a word.
"It's such a time, you can still laugh..." Li Yin looked at the weird smile on the face of the fat man in the ball uniform, and suddenly realized something, his face froze, and he turned to look at Ji Siwei very stiffly: "Huya, you This wheelchair is quite fast hahahahahaha..."
Worried about triggering the death condition, Ji Siwei did not answer Li Yin's words.
But he was relieved to see that Li Yin had sensed the danger.
Not long after, the scattered crowd walked around the road and came to Ji Siwei's side one after another.
They subconsciously gathered around Ji Siwei.
While watching the group of piranhas in a safe place, everyone's mood has changed.
The piranhas lost their prey, and became quiet again, crawling on the ground, looking like a pile of dry tree trunks from a distance.
The three villagers who survived were sad, and stared at the piranhas with red eyes, wishing to dig their partners out of the digestive tract of the piranhas with their eyes.
"See you soon, isn't piranha just a legend?"
"Didn't it say that the largest carnivorous plant in the world is Nepenthes malayi, and it can only eat a small mouse if it is exhausted?!"
"What the hell are these things?"
Li Yin asked repeatedly in despair.
Ah Ming closed his eyes and sneered: "Don't use the standard of the real world to define the dungeon world, there are all kinds of wonders here."
"Of course I know, but I can't help but want to say shit." Li Yin complained in a low voice, and when he lowered his head, he saw the blood on Yiyi's knee: "Yiyi, you're hurt!"
Wang Yiyi heard the words and took a look, only to find that the knee of the trousers was scratched and soaked in blood.
"Hmm...maybe it was broken by a stone when I fell...it hurts..." Wang Yiyi looked so frightened that her legs were limp, tears swirled in her eyes.
It seems that she thought no one saw the series of operations in which she escaped.
Looking at Wang Yiyi's bleeding wound, Li Yin frowned: "It must be very painful, right? The bleeding must be stopped quickly."
"In the deep forest, if you are injured, you must deal with it immediately, so as not to attract predators and blood-sucking insects." The captain wiped his face, suppressed his sadness, and took off his backpack: "Girl, sit down, and I will help you deal with it." Treat the wound."
Sitting in a dry place, Wang Yiyi untied the rope on his trousers, rolled up his trousers, exposed the wound on his knee, and said in a soft voice, "Thank you brother captain...you are really a good person..."
The fat man in the ball uniform stared straight at the red blood, swallowed his profuse saliva, and asked faintly, "Wang Yiyi, does it hurt?"
Wang Yiyi raised her head, just in time to meet the gaze of the fat man in the ball uniform, she was startled, and shrank back a bit.
The captain was disinfecting her, so he didn't pay attention to her movements, and rubbed the wound with a cotton swab, causing her to gasp in pain.
"Wang Yiyi... Wang Yiyi... does it hurt?"
Wang Yiyi pursed her lips tightly, her eyes dodged, and she didn't respond to the fat man in the ball uniform.
"Wang Yiyi...Wang Yiyi...answer me...does it hurt?"
The fat man in the ball uniform quietly approached Wang Yiyi, took a deep breath of the air that smelled faintly of blood, and looked greedily at Wang Yiyi.
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Wang Yiyi's forehead instantly, she clenched her fists, lowered her eyes and said nothing.
"It will hurt a little, just bear with it." The captain put the medicine powder on Wang Yiyi: "Why are you ignoring him? Are there conflicts?"
Wang Yiyi focused all his attention on the fat man in the defensive uniform, and answered irrelevant questions: "Thank you brother captain..."
The evil spirit is hiding in the body of the fat man in the ball uniform. He doesn't know if the fat man in the ball uniform is still alive. Ji Siwei has no way to solve it for the time being.
If it wanted to mess with other people, Ji Siwei might intervene.
But it was aimed at Wang Yiyi, so there was no need for Ji Siwei to stop it.
After all, Wang Yiyi is suspected of killing the blind girl, like a time bomb, much more dangerous than it.
Thinking of this, Ji Siwei looked at everyone and began to re-examine the team——
A cripple, a little mute, a shadow queen, a fat man possessed by evil spirits, a veteran with bad eyesight... Looking at it this way, Ah Ming is definitely the only normal and capable person in the team.
The fat man in the ball uniform kept repeating the same sentence—"Wang Yiyi...does it hurt?", until the captain couldn't stand it any longer, so he speeded up and tied the gauze, and took the fat man in the ball uniform aside to teach: "I said this Brother, even if you want to care about her, you can't keep repeating a sentence, what is this? Does the repeater care about the law?"
The fat man in the ball uniform stared at the captain's mouth opening and closing, made a judgment, and found that he couldn't eat, so he blinked, and silently rubbed against Li Yin's side.
Li Yin became conscious, and silently walked to Ji Siwei's side.
The fat man in the ball uniform paused and stopped sticking to it.
The captain thought that he had succeeded in education, and greeted everyone: "Take a look at what you have left, and check the water in the kettle, we have to hurry up."
Lunch was interrupted by an accident, a lot of food was lost, and they really didn't have the appetite to eat again.
Under the leadership of the captain, everyone marched towards the gate of the old village again.
Having experienced a storm, tired and hungry, everyone was no longer in the mood to appreciate the scenery.
Until the dusk overflowed and the thick clouds were about to fall, weeds grew wildly in a gap, and a dilapidated old stone road appeared in front of us.
When they went through hardships and finally saw some human traces in the big forest, they were as surprised and excited as when they first entered the deep forest.
There are two regular rows of broken huge stone statues standing on both sides of the stone road. Each stone statue is covered with green vines, making it hard to see its true face.
The rose-colored slanting light shrouded the stone statue, the lush weeds on both sides were wrinkled by the wind, and the surroundings were extremely silent.
It seems that through this stone road, you can reach the hidden world.
"There's a stone tablet." Ji Siwei suddenly pointed in a certain direction and said.
Everyone looked along his nails, and saw a tall stone tablet covered with vines standing in front of the stone road, with a little handwriting faintly showing.
The captain walked up to the stele, raised the knife to cut off the vines above it, tore apart the broken vines, and two lines of blood-stained words appeared in front of everyone——
"Go one kilometer to Linan Ancient Village."
Seeing this line of writing, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Persist a little longer, everyone, we'll be there soon!" Perhaps seeing hope, the captain spoke with excitement.
When walking along the stone road to the end, a towering stone archway appeared in front of you.
The archway is grand and stable, full of traces of the years, and the four characters "Linan Ancient Village" are engraved on the top.
This is the old village gate that the patriarch said.
Behind the gate of the old village, there are tall buildings covered with moss and vines, blending into the forest, some are well preserved, and some have decayed and collapsed.
From time to time, a fluffy tail appeared from the wreckage, or one or two small figures darted past. It seemed that many small animals made their homes inside.
As the sky was getting darker, I stood at the gate of the old village and looked inside, Wang Yiyi sighed: "This is like a scene from a fairy tale."
"Fairy tale world?" Ah Ming folded his hands and smiled: "Do you still remember what the patriarch said?"
Hearing this sentence, everyone invariably remembered the words of the patriarch——
"At midnight, the gate of ghosts opens, and the gate of the old village connects the two realms of yin and yang. Ghosts come out from the underworld and mix among the living... The ancestors had no choice but to give up the old village to the ghosts..."
If what the patriarch said was true, wouldn't the old village be full of lonely souls and wild ghosts?
As soon as this idea was formed in his mind, the whole old village instantly became extremely gloomy, as if the next moment, there would be terrifying ghosts crawling out of those tall buildings and eating them up.
"So what if it's full of ghosts, even if we dig three feet into the ground, we still have to find the fragments of the map." Li Yin sighed: "If you can't complete the mission, you can't get out of the dungeon, and you won't escape death after all."
Ah Ming raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised: "I can't tell, you are quite enlightened."
"You should be an experienced veteran, right? My enlightenment is naturally incomparable to yours..." Li Yin picked up a dead branch on the ground, stroked off the small branches above, and weighed it in his hand: "But, I Anyway, I survived the previous dungeon, don't look down on me."
"Don't release rainbow gas on me, I'm not as powerful as you said." Ah Ming said: "In the dungeon, life and death depend on one's ability, no one looks down on you."
Sometimes Li Yin looks very foolish, and sometimes he looks very reliable. It is difficult to judge what kind of person he is.
Maybe this is the straight man of steel.
"The setting sun won't last long, we have to act quickly." Seeing that it was getting dark, Ji Siwei put the wooden box containing the map into his backpack and began to think: "The clue is 'walk three times before the gate of hell', this clue is Literal meaning, or something else, you have to experiment to know."
Ji Siwei didn't speak often, but every time he spoke he was on point, and others would listen carefully.
Li Yin nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Then the question is, who will try?"
No one wants to be a guinea pig for things that are clearly risky.
Ah Ming gave Ji Siwei a look, then turned his head and said softly to the captain: "Captain, you see that we are all old, weak, sick and disabled here, and your skills are better, why don't you send one of you to try it out?" Bar?"
It is rare for Ah Ming to have such a gentle moment, the captain's dark face blushed, and he agreed without hesitation: "I'll try."
Ah Er was a little anxious: "Captain, let me go!"
The captain firmly rejected him: "I'll go."
After finishing speaking, without stopping any longer, he handed over his backpack to Ah Er for safekeeping, and walked straight to the gate of the old village with a curved sickle in his hand.
The captain paused, turned around and said earnestly: "By the way, there is one more thing that needs to be conveyed to you. If something happens to me later, after nightfall, you must not make too much noise in the old stockade. I once heard The old man said that the ghosts living in the old village are all blind and can only find people by listening to the sound."
After the captain finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the gate of the village.
Li Yin moved closer to Ah Ming, lowered his voice and said worriedly: "Aren't you worried about letting the NPC go, and won't give it to us after finding the map?"
"If the map was so easy to find, would so many people die in the village?" Ah Ming glanced at him: "If you don't need your brain, you can donate it to those in need."
Li Yin touched his nose, but felt that what Ah Ming said made sense, coughed awkwardly, and turned to pay attention to the captain's actions.
The captain walks from one end of the gate to the other, and repeats.
Nothing happened the first two times.
The captain took a deep breath and started walking the third time.
It was obviously a very simple movement, but it was so tense that everyone held their breath.
Everyone is waiting for a result.
Just when the captain took the last step, an incredible scene appeared!
——There seemed to be a small distortion in the air, and the next moment, the captain who was 1.8 meters tall disappeared out of thin air!
Li Yin's mind went blank for a moment, and he stared blankly at the gate of the old village: "Did I read it wrong? Why is the captain missing!"
Ji Siwei frowned suddenly: "You are not mistaken, he has indeed disappeared."
Ah Ming changed his lazy state, drew out his dagger, and looked ahead vigilantly with deep black eyes: "The gate of hell is really not a place you can break through casually."
"Captain!" Ah Er lost his composure, and rushed forward: "I'm going to find him!"
"Don't be impulsive." Ji Siwei grabbed Ah Er's arm in time and held him back: "Rushing over will not do you any good."
Ah Er said angrily: "It's not your people who have the accident, of course you don't worry!"
Ji Siwei was not irritated at all, and let go of his wrist: "It's useless to be anxious, if you insist on going, I won't stop you."
Seeing this, Ah Si came over to appease Ah Er: "Second brother, what he said makes sense, calm down first."
Ah Ming asked Ji Siwei: "What do you think should be done now?"
"Wait." Ji Siwei thought for a moment, and the twilight reflected in his clear eyes: "Two or ten minutes later, if the captain hasn't come out yet, let's go in."
"Go in?" Wang Yiyi's face was a little pale because of the injury: "Brother Huya, where do you mean to go in?"
Ji Siwei was silent for a moment before slowly opening his mouth and said: "The patriarch said that there is a ghost gate under the gate of the old village, which connects the two worlds of Yin and Yang. I guess, when a person walks in front of the gate for the third time, it is equivalent to unlocking it." This 'door' has entered another space. There is a high probability that the map is hidden in that space."
Wang Yiyi's face turned even paler: "You mean, enter the underworld? This...isn't possible..."
Ji Siwei shook his head: "Probably not, let's not consider the existence of the underworld, assuming that this door is connected to the underworld, then this is an impossible task, and the copy will not set impossible tasks."
"I agree." Ah Ming raised his hand to look at his watch: "My watch was adjusted to the same time as the dungeon on the first day, and now it starts counting."
In just 10 minutes, everyone felt that a century had passed.
The afterglow of the setting sun has stopped business, the moon poked its head out from the clouds, and the cold moonlight scattered all over the place.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Ji Siwei always felt that after the sun fell, the whole old village was enveloped by a black air.
Ah Ming glanced at his watch and said coldly: "It's time."
The captain didn't come out.
"Let's go." Ji Siwei said in a deep voice: "Remember, if there is really another space, keep quiet after entering. The captain's hint is very reasonable and should be true."
Once the decision is made, it will not be changed easily. Ji Siwei did not hesitate, and did not intend to do another "experiment", and moved directly to the gate of the old village.
The others sighed in resignation and followed behind him.
Wang Yiyi suddenly stopped, blinking her eyes uneasily: "You guys go... I, I'm scared... I don't want to go in, I'll wait outside for you to come out, okay?"
Li Yin's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it: "Are you crazy? Are you looking for death here by yourself?"
Wang Yiyi just shook her head vigorously: "I don't want to go in...I don't want to..."
Li Yin was angry: "You!"
"No need to persuade." Ah Ming held Li Yin back: "There is no need to interfere with her decision."
Li Yin frowned: "But, she will die!"
"Are you some kind of independent Virgin Mary?" Ah Ming looked at him with a smile: "Since you are so worried, why don't you stay with her? :)"
Li Yin hesitated and followed Ji Siwei without any confidence: "I'm even more worried about you."
The fat man in the ball uniform looked at Yiyi, then at Li Yin, and finally followed behind Li Yin, muttering softly, "Go home, go home."
Wang Yiyi stood in front of the gate of the old village, watching the people walk in front of the gate over and over again, and when they passed a certain node, they disappeared one by one.
When everyone disappeared, the panic and fear on Wang Yiyi's face disappeared in an instant, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of her lips: "The mantis is catching the cicada, and the oriole is behind, who wants to enter such a ghostly place by himself."
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"How many times have we walked?" Li Yin scratched his head: "Why does it feel like there is no change?"
The scenery in front of me didn't seem to change at all, there was no feeling of traveling to another space, and I didn't see the people in front of me disappearing in front of my eyes, they seemed to be spinning in circles all the time.
"There is a change, Wang Yiyi is gone." Ji Siwei stopped, pointed outside the gate and said, "We have indeed entered another space."
As soon as the words fell, the fire altar next to the archway suddenly ignited, and the flames tore through the thick night, emitting a little warm light.
The lanterns hanging on the stilt buildings lit up one by one, and only then did they realize that these stilt buildings were well-established, well-maintained and very new at first glance.
It didn't collapse, and it wasn't covered in vines.
First, the houses next to the village gate lit up, and then, as if they had received some kind of signal, one house after another lit up.
The entire village seemed to be on a reset switch.
Smoke rose from one or two of the chimneys, and the windows reflected the shadows of the furniture in the house.
At first glance, it looks very similar to Linan Ancient Village where they live.
It's just... every lantern here has a big "Dian" character written on it.
It reveals a warm scene, because of these words, the meaning has completely changed.
After the fat man in the ball suit entered the old stockade, his whole state changed. He was relaxed and seemed to enjoy the atmosphere here.
Ah Ming looked down at Ji Siwei, and said softly, "Sure enough, as you said, there is another space here."
"It's unbelievable..." Li Yin's Adam's apple slipped uneasily, and said in a barely audible voice: "The one who lives in the house can't be..."
"Captain! Captain! Where are you?"
Before Li Yin finished speaking, Ah Er suddenly yelled like crazy.
Seeing this, Ah Si also called out loudly: "Captain! Come out quickly! We are here!"
Ji Siwei's face darkened: "I made a mistake, cover their mouths."
I almost forgot that not all NPCs in this world are kind enough to help them complete tasks.
Knowing the location of the evil spirits in the old village, they still shouted loudly, which was too obvious for the dungeon.
Recalling the reminder given by the captain before leaving, Li Yin and the little mute reacted quickly and covered the mouths of the two villagers with force.
However, these two young villagers were both physically strong, and when they struggled, even Li Yin couldn't suppress them.
Ah Er even threw the little mute directly over his shoulder to the ground.
The little mute was stunned by the fall, lying on the ground and making a fuzzy gasp in pain.
"Why don't you let us find the captain!" Ah Er sneered, sitting on the little mute, raised his fist and was about to hit the little mute on the head.
The next moment, Ah Er rolled his eyes and fell on the little mute.
Ji Siwei retracted the black long knife silently, hiding his achievements and fame.
It turned out that he hit Ah Er on the back of the neck with the back of the knife, knocking Ah Er unconscious.
The little mute was almost seriously injured, so he pushed Ah Er away, stood up rubbing his elbows, and gave Ji Siwei a grateful look.
On the other side, Ah Ming helped Li Yin suppress Ah Si, and stuffed the face scarf into Ah Si's mouth to silence his voice.
Then he untied their belts and tied Ah Er and Ah Si's hands and feet.
Before everyone had time to breathe a sigh of relief, they found that a "person" was alarmed by their movements and walked out of the nearest house!
A long and narrow mask appeared in front of his eyes. On the mask was a crooked face, and there were red and blue strange totems on it. Behind the mask was a short, dark man, holding a bag with his slender fingers. A crooked cane with two women's heads on it.
This strange man also tied a package with a rope and carried it behind his back, with a bamboo basket above it to protect him from the rain.
The people living in the house are indeed not normal people!
The strange person walked with her legs spread apart, inexplicably looking a bit like a crab. She took two steps and stopped suddenly.
Everyone subconsciously held their breath and remained motionless.
"Strange, I heard some movement just now, why is there no one at the moment."
Hoarse and low, it sounded like the voice of an old lady.
"Ah, so you are here..." The strange mother-in-law paused, and the mask turned to the direction of the fat man in the ball uniform: "Why is your breath so weak, I almost didn't see you."
"Why did you wake up so early? Stop wandering outside, go home quickly..."
The fat man in the ball suit tilted his head and opened his mouth to reveal a happy smile.
Maybe it was because they wanted to eat alone, but the evil spirits in the fat man's body did not reveal their existence.
This made Ji Siwei secretly heave a sigh of relief.
After the strange mother-in-law finished speaking, she shook her head and walked back on crutches.
It turned out that the basket behind her was hollowed out, and there were two small black balls inside. There was a black tentacles on the head of the small balls, and the black and white eyes were looking out curiously.
Fortunately, these two little balls are "blind" like the strange mother-in-law.
They were clearly in front of the strange mother-in-law, but she could only see the fat man in the ball uniform.
This shows that the captain's hint is correct, and the ghosts here can only tell the location of humans by sound.
And Fatty... not quite a person now.
One window after another was opened, and one black head after another wearing a narrow mask protruded from the inside.
"They" seemed to have just woken up, poked their heads curiously, and asked in a hurry:
"Master, I seem to hear something?"
"what happened?"
"Is there any more food coming in?"
"When you talk about food, I'm hungry...hehe..."
Looking at the densely packed masks that suddenly appeared, everyone's hair went numb instantly, and even their fine hairs stood on end.
You can only restrain yourself and don't make a sound.
"It's okay, it's okay..." The strange mother-in-law waved her hand: "It's just a little doll playing on the road..."
Looking carefully at the red and blue masks with different expressions, Ji Siwei felt a chill in his heart, thinking of the masks that fell from the attic of the old house.
The style of that mask is very similar to the mask worn by the weirdo here.
Every event in this dungeon is indeed connected!
The monster in the attic of the old house probably slipped out of this old village.
Moreover, the evil spirit on the fat man in the ball uniform has been very excited since entering the old stockade, and even said "go home", so it is likely to live here as well.
And the reason why they left the old village only recently and went to the new Linan Ancient Village should be related to the change in the Jiuwei Temple.
Ji Siwei only felt that the thoughts in his mind became clearer——
Those disordered death conditions suddenly had a common point.
The first death condition - cannot answer when the "stranger" on the road calls his name.This is a reminder from the patriarch.
The second death condition - during the sacrifice process, the mask cannot be dropped.This is a reminder from the villager who sent the mask over.
The third death condition - when sleeping at night, the slippers cannot be placed outside the door, and the toes of the shoes are facing inward.This is a reminder from the patriarch.
The fourth death condition - when others call their name, they cannot answer. This is the patriarch's reminder.
The fifth death condition - after entering the gate of the old village, you can't make a loud noise, this is the captain's reminder.
Regardless of whether they have triggered the corresponding death conditions or not, what is certain is that these death conditions are all spoken from key NPCs!
Although the piranhas encountered on the way were dangerous, no one was seriously injured or died because they did not trigger the death condition.The death of two NPCs may be just to create an atmosphere to scare them, or to reduce the number of NPCs.
Straightening out his train of thought, Ji Siwei wanted to discuss it with Ah Ming, but the current environment did not allow it.
The masked black monsters put their heads back, but the windows stayed open.
"They" appear to have just woken up and may be out and about next.
In this case, if everyone wants to find a small map in a huge town, the danger and difficulty will be greatly increased.
Everyone was watching the strange mother-in-law leave, and it was so quiet that only some voices in the village could be heard.
Seeing that the strange mother-in-law was about to return to the door, Ah Er, who was knocked out by Ji Siwei, suddenly woke up and groaned in pain.
"It's so uncomfortable..." Ah Er half-opened his eyes and gasped.
Ah Er fainted before, Ah Ming didn't gag him.
It's over.
A gust of night wind blew past, and Li Yin's back felt chilly, and belatedly realized that his back was wet with sweat.
Before Ji Siwei had time to knock the bastard out again, he felt a black shadow jumping in front of him.
Taking a closer look, I saw that the strange mother-in-law had already come in front of Ah Er, her masked face approached in front of Ah Er, and her slender, dark fingers were strangling his throat.
His finger stuck into Ah Er's neck, and bright red blood flowed out.
"Ghost! Ghost!! Help! Help me!" Ah Er yelled heart-piercingly, his dead fish eyes widening in horror.
This result was Ah Er's own fault, and everyone felt unwavering in their hearts, watching the NPC acting silently.
The two little black balls jumped out of the back basket and landed on Ah Er's body. With an "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
"It's unpalatable, it's unpalatable..." The little black ball made a childish voice, and spat out the bitten flesh in disgust.
"I'm unpalatable, don't eat me, I'll tell you where the others are, can you let me go?" Ah Er blurted out in unbearable pain.
The ghosts in the stilt building were alarmed again, and masked faces peeked out of the windows.
But Ji Siwei and his party were shocked by Ah Er's words.
Originally eating melons, a big pot suddenly came from the sky.
Fuck, were they sold by NPCs?
What kind of shit is this!
Li Yin glared at Ah Er fiercely, and complained wildly in his heart: Can I complain to the dungeon NPC to play me!
The strange mother-in-law gave a strange laugh, and asked quietly, "Then tell me, where are they?"
I really agreed!
Everyone: It must be because I did not do well enough to encounter such a bad dungeon QAQ.
There is a strange mother-in-law in the front, and there are a lot of evil spirits in the back, and there is no clue on the map. Now running will make a big noise, and if you don't run, you will definitely be betrayed by Ah Er.
It's so hard.
Ah Er grabbed the wrist of the strange mother-in-law and said with difficulty: "They are right behind you, there are five of them in total!"
"Oh..." The strange mother-in-law laughed fiercely, and twisted Ah Er's neck with force with her fingers.
The strange mother-in-law stood up, and the double-headed crutches hit the floor heavily.
After three sounds, the two women on the crutches widened their eyes and let out a sharp cry, and a large number of vague shadows floated out from the tall building.
If you look closely, you can see that there are all human-shaped black shadows wearing long and narrow masks. They were summoned and surrounded the open space in front of the archway.
"where?"
"Where's the food?"
"Food...I want food..."
The evil spirits made greedy sounds, and stretched out their black hands to grope in the air, and they were about to touch them.
Is it strange that the mother-in-law's knocking means: There is food here, come quickly?
The little mute's hands began to tremble.
Li Yin was also suppressing his fear.
Although the death conditions were not triggered, the evil spirits could not kill them logically.
But in such a horrible situation, it is impossible for them to keep silent.
There are too many opponents, and there are more and more, there is almost no chance of winning.
Ji Siwei's mind was running fast, thinking about the solution, when he was frowning and trying to look up at the sky at a 45° angle, he suddenly saw the three big characters "Ghost Gate" written on the top of the archway in bright red!
He twisted his neck with difficulty, making sure that it said "Gate of Hell".
A white light flashed through his mind, and Ji Siwei instantly understood.
It turns out that the archway in this space is the real ghost gate! !
If there was a Supernova Forest Games, these sika deer might win the championship.
But everyone has no time to appreciate the vigorous pace of these athletes, because they are facing a severe test of life and death.
All the piranhas crawling on the ground stood up. The flower stems were a low-key dead wood color, but the inside of the huge petals was bright orange-red, and a special stench emanated from their large predators.
These piranhas are tall and huge, with their bodies stretched to nearly three meters, like a flexible python.
They even act like snakes when they prey, first arching the flower stalks and then striking out.
They have no eyes, and do not know how to tell the position of living things.
"Run separately! Run out of the hunting range of the piranhas!" The captain held a curved sickle, and sprinted loudly to evacuate the team.
Everyone had already reacted, and it was too late to pack up the package, grab what they could carry, and escape as quickly as possible.
A rotten stench gradually approached, and immediately, Ji Siwei felt a gust of gorilla wind passing by his side.
He glanced sideways, and saw two plump stamens coming from behind at a very fast speed, engulfing the villager named Ah San who was running beside him, and dragging him back quickly.
There was a scream that sent chills down the spine, and then they heard the sound of bones breaking.
"Asan!"
Ah Er snorted, gritted his molars, and drew out two arrows, aiming at the stamens that bound Ah San while running.
"call out--"
A sharp arrow flew out, hitting one of the stamens.
Dark green juice seeped from the stamens, corroding the entire metal arrow in an instant.
The speed at which the stamen dragged Ah San did not decrease at all.
The piranha juice is so corrosive, which means that ordinary sharp weapons are useless to it, and it is dangerous to be splashed by the juice.
"Ah Er, don't do useless work, run away!" The captain's voice was hoarse, and he shouted at Ah Er with all his strength: "Run!"
Ah Er was about to bite his back molars to pieces, put away his bow and arrows with red eyes, and ran wildly.
With the help of the little puppet, Ji Siwei's wheelchair broke through the limit speed again, rushed out of the hunting range of the piranha, made a beautiful drift and turn on the grass, and came to a steady stop.
Ji Siwei looked up at the group of cannibal flowers——
The two piranhas that had preyed on them were lying on the ground, entering a state of digestion, and the several piranhas on the same root did not move, as if they were defending.
Only three piranhas are still attacking wildly.
The desire to survive drives everyone to run as fast as they can.
Ah Ming and the little mute chose a good direction at the beginning, they were no longer within the attack range of the piranha, but a little far away from Ji Siwei.
Wang Yiyi ran too fast, tripped over her ankle by a knotted weed that was too long, and fell heavily on the grass.
The piranha turned sharply, opening its predators and attacking her.
According to Wang Yiyi's usual character design, at this time she should be panicked, trembling with fright, crying for help.
But she didn't shed a single tear, and at the moment of life and death, she turned over neatly and avoided the attack of the piranha.
The piranha hit the air with one blow, gnawed a mouthful of grass, and lay down on the ground in a daze.
Hope Yiyi didn't waste a second, seized the opportunity and quickly escaped from danger.
At the moment of life and death, any pretense will be exposed.
"Fatty, why are you running faster than me?"
Li Yin managed to get to a safe place, sweating profusely, and asked out of breath.
The fat man in the ball uniform had an invariable smile on his face, only staring at Li Yin's flushed face with salivating eyes, without saying a word.
"It's such a time, you can still laugh..." Li Yin looked at the weird smile on the face of the fat man in the ball uniform, and suddenly realized something, his face froze, and he turned to look at Ji Siwei very stiffly: "Huya, you This wheelchair is quite fast hahahahahaha..."
Worried about triggering the death condition, Ji Siwei did not answer Li Yin's words.
But he was relieved to see that Li Yin had sensed the danger.
Not long after, the scattered crowd walked around the road and came to Ji Siwei's side one after another.
They subconsciously gathered around Ji Siwei.
While watching the group of piranhas in a safe place, everyone's mood has changed.
The piranhas lost their prey, and became quiet again, crawling on the ground, looking like a pile of dry tree trunks from a distance.
The three villagers who survived were sad, and stared at the piranhas with red eyes, wishing to dig their partners out of the digestive tract of the piranhas with their eyes.
"See you soon, isn't piranha just a legend?"
"Didn't it say that the largest carnivorous plant in the world is Nepenthes malayi, and it can only eat a small mouse if it is exhausted?!"
"What the hell are these things?"
Li Yin asked repeatedly in despair.
Ah Ming closed his eyes and sneered: "Don't use the standard of the real world to define the dungeon world, there are all kinds of wonders here."
"Of course I know, but I can't help but want to say shit." Li Yin complained in a low voice, and when he lowered his head, he saw the blood on Yiyi's knee: "Yiyi, you're hurt!"
Wang Yiyi heard the words and took a look, only to find that the knee of the trousers was scratched and soaked in blood.
"Hmm...maybe it was broken by a stone when I fell...it hurts..." Wang Yiyi looked so frightened that her legs were limp, tears swirled in her eyes.
It seems that she thought no one saw the series of operations in which she escaped.
Looking at Wang Yiyi's bleeding wound, Li Yin frowned: "It must be very painful, right? The bleeding must be stopped quickly."
"In the deep forest, if you are injured, you must deal with it immediately, so as not to attract predators and blood-sucking insects." The captain wiped his face, suppressed his sadness, and took off his backpack: "Girl, sit down, and I will help you deal with it." Treat the wound."
Sitting in a dry place, Wang Yiyi untied the rope on his trousers, rolled up his trousers, exposed the wound on his knee, and said in a soft voice, "Thank you brother captain...you are really a good person..."
The fat man in the ball uniform stared straight at the red blood, swallowed his profuse saliva, and asked faintly, "Wang Yiyi, does it hurt?"
Wang Yiyi raised her head, just in time to meet the gaze of the fat man in the ball uniform, she was startled, and shrank back a bit.
The captain was disinfecting her, so he didn't pay attention to her movements, and rubbed the wound with a cotton swab, causing her to gasp in pain.
"Wang Yiyi... Wang Yiyi... does it hurt?"
Wang Yiyi pursed her lips tightly, her eyes dodged, and she didn't respond to the fat man in the ball uniform.
"Wang Yiyi...Wang Yiyi...answer me...does it hurt?"
The fat man in the ball uniform quietly approached Wang Yiyi, took a deep breath of the air that smelled faintly of blood, and looked greedily at Wang Yiyi.
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Wang Yiyi's forehead instantly, she clenched her fists, lowered her eyes and said nothing.
"It will hurt a little, just bear with it." The captain put the medicine powder on Wang Yiyi: "Why are you ignoring him? Are there conflicts?"
Wang Yiyi focused all his attention on the fat man in the defensive uniform, and answered irrelevant questions: "Thank you brother captain..."
The evil spirit is hiding in the body of the fat man in the ball uniform. He doesn't know if the fat man in the ball uniform is still alive. Ji Siwei has no way to solve it for the time being.
If it wanted to mess with other people, Ji Siwei might intervene.
But it was aimed at Wang Yiyi, so there was no need for Ji Siwei to stop it.
After all, Wang Yiyi is suspected of killing the blind girl, like a time bomb, much more dangerous than it.
Thinking of this, Ji Siwei looked at everyone and began to re-examine the team——
A cripple, a little mute, a shadow queen, a fat man possessed by evil spirits, a veteran with bad eyesight... Looking at it this way, Ah Ming is definitely the only normal and capable person in the team.
The fat man in the ball uniform kept repeating the same sentence—"Wang Yiyi...does it hurt?", until the captain couldn't stand it any longer, so he speeded up and tied the gauze, and took the fat man in the ball uniform aside to teach: "I said this Brother, even if you want to care about her, you can't keep repeating a sentence, what is this? Does the repeater care about the law?"
The fat man in the ball uniform stared at the captain's mouth opening and closing, made a judgment, and found that he couldn't eat, so he blinked, and silently rubbed against Li Yin's side.
Li Yin became conscious, and silently walked to Ji Siwei's side.
The fat man in the ball uniform paused and stopped sticking to it.
The captain thought that he had succeeded in education, and greeted everyone: "Take a look at what you have left, and check the water in the kettle, we have to hurry up."
Lunch was interrupted by an accident, a lot of food was lost, and they really didn't have the appetite to eat again.
Under the leadership of the captain, everyone marched towards the gate of the old village again.
Having experienced a storm, tired and hungry, everyone was no longer in the mood to appreciate the scenery.
Until the dusk overflowed and the thick clouds were about to fall, weeds grew wildly in a gap, and a dilapidated old stone road appeared in front of us.
When they went through hardships and finally saw some human traces in the big forest, they were as surprised and excited as when they first entered the deep forest.
There are two regular rows of broken huge stone statues standing on both sides of the stone road. Each stone statue is covered with green vines, making it hard to see its true face.
The rose-colored slanting light shrouded the stone statue, the lush weeds on both sides were wrinkled by the wind, and the surroundings were extremely silent.
It seems that through this stone road, you can reach the hidden world.
"There's a stone tablet." Ji Siwei suddenly pointed in a certain direction and said.
Everyone looked along his nails, and saw a tall stone tablet covered with vines standing in front of the stone road, with a little handwriting faintly showing.
The captain walked up to the stele, raised the knife to cut off the vines above it, tore apart the broken vines, and two lines of blood-stained words appeared in front of everyone——
"Go one kilometer to Linan Ancient Village."
Seeing this line of writing, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Persist a little longer, everyone, we'll be there soon!" Perhaps seeing hope, the captain spoke with excitement.
When walking along the stone road to the end, a towering stone archway appeared in front of you.
The archway is grand and stable, full of traces of the years, and the four characters "Linan Ancient Village" are engraved on the top.
This is the old village gate that the patriarch said.
Behind the gate of the old village, there are tall buildings covered with moss and vines, blending into the forest, some are well preserved, and some have decayed and collapsed.
From time to time, a fluffy tail appeared from the wreckage, or one or two small figures darted past. It seemed that many small animals made their homes inside.
As the sky was getting darker, I stood at the gate of the old village and looked inside, Wang Yiyi sighed: "This is like a scene from a fairy tale."
"Fairy tale world?" Ah Ming folded his hands and smiled: "Do you still remember what the patriarch said?"
Hearing this sentence, everyone invariably remembered the words of the patriarch——
"At midnight, the gate of ghosts opens, and the gate of the old village connects the two realms of yin and yang. Ghosts come out from the underworld and mix among the living... The ancestors had no choice but to give up the old village to the ghosts..."
If what the patriarch said was true, wouldn't the old village be full of lonely souls and wild ghosts?
As soon as this idea was formed in his mind, the whole old village instantly became extremely gloomy, as if the next moment, there would be terrifying ghosts crawling out of those tall buildings and eating them up.
"So what if it's full of ghosts, even if we dig three feet into the ground, we still have to find the fragments of the map." Li Yin sighed: "If you can't complete the mission, you can't get out of the dungeon, and you won't escape death after all."
Ah Ming raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised: "I can't tell, you are quite enlightened."
"You should be an experienced veteran, right? My enlightenment is naturally incomparable to yours..." Li Yin picked up a dead branch on the ground, stroked off the small branches above, and weighed it in his hand: "But, I Anyway, I survived the previous dungeon, don't look down on me."
"Don't release rainbow gas on me, I'm not as powerful as you said." Ah Ming said: "In the dungeon, life and death depend on one's ability, no one looks down on you."
Sometimes Li Yin looks very foolish, and sometimes he looks very reliable. It is difficult to judge what kind of person he is.
Maybe this is the straight man of steel.
"The setting sun won't last long, we have to act quickly." Seeing that it was getting dark, Ji Siwei put the wooden box containing the map into his backpack and began to think: "The clue is 'walk three times before the gate of hell', this clue is Literal meaning, or something else, you have to experiment to know."
Ji Siwei didn't speak often, but every time he spoke he was on point, and others would listen carefully.
Li Yin nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Then the question is, who will try?"
No one wants to be a guinea pig for things that are clearly risky.
Ah Ming gave Ji Siwei a look, then turned his head and said softly to the captain: "Captain, you see that we are all old, weak, sick and disabled here, and your skills are better, why don't you send one of you to try it out?" Bar?"
It is rare for Ah Ming to have such a gentle moment, the captain's dark face blushed, and he agreed without hesitation: "I'll try."
Ah Er was a little anxious: "Captain, let me go!"
The captain firmly rejected him: "I'll go."
After finishing speaking, without stopping any longer, he handed over his backpack to Ah Er for safekeeping, and walked straight to the gate of the old village with a curved sickle in his hand.
The captain paused, turned around and said earnestly: "By the way, there is one more thing that needs to be conveyed to you. If something happens to me later, after nightfall, you must not make too much noise in the old stockade. I once heard The old man said that the ghosts living in the old village are all blind and can only find people by listening to the sound."
After the captain finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the gate of the village.
Li Yin moved closer to Ah Ming, lowered his voice and said worriedly: "Aren't you worried about letting the NPC go, and won't give it to us after finding the map?"
"If the map was so easy to find, would so many people die in the village?" Ah Ming glanced at him: "If you don't need your brain, you can donate it to those in need."
Li Yin touched his nose, but felt that what Ah Ming said made sense, coughed awkwardly, and turned to pay attention to the captain's actions.
The captain walks from one end of the gate to the other, and repeats.
Nothing happened the first two times.
The captain took a deep breath and started walking the third time.
It was obviously a very simple movement, but it was so tense that everyone held their breath.
Everyone is waiting for a result.
Just when the captain took the last step, an incredible scene appeared!
——There seemed to be a small distortion in the air, and the next moment, the captain who was 1.8 meters tall disappeared out of thin air!
Li Yin's mind went blank for a moment, and he stared blankly at the gate of the old village: "Did I read it wrong? Why is the captain missing!"
Ji Siwei frowned suddenly: "You are not mistaken, he has indeed disappeared."
Ah Ming changed his lazy state, drew out his dagger, and looked ahead vigilantly with deep black eyes: "The gate of hell is really not a place you can break through casually."
"Captain!" Ah Er lost his composure, and rushed forward: "I'm going to find him!"
"Don't be impulsive." Ji Siwei grabbed Ah Er's arm in time and held him back: "Rushing over will not do you any good."
Ah Er said angrily: "It's not your people who have the accident, of course you don't worry!"
Ji Siwei was not irritated at all, and let go of his wrist: "It's useless to be anxious, if you insist on going, I won't stop you."
Seeing this, Ah Si came over to appease Ah Er: "Second brother, what he said makes sense, calm down first."
Ah Ming asked Ji Siwei: "What do you think should be done now?"
"Wait." Ji Siwei thought for a moment, and the twilight reflected in his clear eyes: "Two or ten minutes later, if the captain hasn't come out yet, let's go in."
"Go in?" Wang Yiyi's face was a little pale because of the injury: "Brother Huya, where do you mean to go in?"
Ji Siwei was silent for a moment before slowly opening his mouth and said: "The patriarch said that there is a ghost gate under the gate of the old village, which connects the two worlds of Yin and Yang. I guess, when a person walks in front of the gate for the third time, it is equivalent to unlocking it." This 'door' has entered another space. There is a high probability that the map is hidden in that space."
Wang Yiyi's face turned even paler: "You mean, enter the underworld? This...isn't possible..."
Ji Siwei shook his head: "Probably not, let's not consider the existence of the underworld, assuming that this door is connected to the underworld, then this is an impossible task, and the copy will not set impossible tasks."
"I agree." Ah Ming raised his hand to look at his watch: "My watch was adjusted to the same time as the dungeon on the first day, and now it starts counting."
In just 10 minutes, everyone felt that a century had passed.
The afterglow of the setting sun has stopped business, the moon poked its head out from the clouds, and the cold moonlight scattered all over the place.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Ji Siwei always felt that after the sun fell, the whole old village was enveloped by a black air.
Ah Ming glanced at his watch and said coldly: "It's time."
The captain didn't come out.
"Let's go." Ji Siwei said in a deep voice: "Remember, if there is really another space, keep quiet after entering. The captain's hint is very reasonable and should be true."
Once the decision is made, it will not be changed easily. Ji Siwei did not hesitate, and did not intend to do another "experiment", and moved directly to the gate of the old village.
The others sighed in resignation and followed behind him.
Wang Yiyi suddenly stopped, blinking her eyes uneasily: "You guys go... I, I'm scared... I don't want to go in, I'll wait outside for you to come out, okay?"
Li Yin's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it: "Are you crazy? Are you looking for death here by yourself?"
Wang Yiyi just shook her head vigorously: "I don't want to go in...I don't want to..."
Li Yin was angry: "You!"
"No need to persuade." Ah Ming held Li Yin back: "There is no need to interfere with her decision."
Li Yin frowned: "But, she will die!"
"Are you some kind of independent Virgin Mary?" Ah Ming looked at him with a smile: "Since you are so worried, why don't you stay with her? :)"
Li Yin hesitated and followed Ji Siwei without any confidence: "I'm even more worried about you."
The fat man in the ball uniform looked at Yiyi, then at Li Yin, and finally followed behind Li Yin, muttering softly, "Go home, go home."
Wang Yiyi stood in front of the gate of the old village, watching the people walk in front of the gate over and over again, and when they passed a certain node, they disappeared one by one.
When everyone disappeared, the panic and fear on Wang Yiyi's face disappeared in an instant, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of her lips: "The mantis is catching the cicada, and the oriole is behind, who wants to enter such a ghostly place by himself."
……
"How many times have we walked?" Li Yin scratched his head: "Why does it feel like there is no change?"
The scenery in front of me didn't seem to change at all, there was no feeling of traveling to another space, and I didn't see the people in front of me disappearing in front of my eyes, they seemed to be spinning in circles all the time.
"There is a change, Wang Yiyi is gone." Ji Siwei stopped, pointed outside the gate and said, "We have indeed entered another space."
As soon as the words fell, the fire altar next to the archway suddenly ignited, and the flames tore through the thick night, emitting a little warm light.
The lanterns hanging on the stilt buildings lit up one by one, and only then did they realize that these stilt buildings were well-established, well-maintained and very new at first glance.
It didn't collapse, and it wasn't covered in vines.
First, the houses next to the village gate lit up, and then, as if they had received some kind of signal, one house after another lit up.
The entire village seemed to be on a reset switch.
Smoke rose from one or two of the chimneys, and the windows reflected the shadows of the furniture in the house.
At first glance, it looks very similar to Linan Ancient Village where they live.
It's just... every lantern here has a big "Dian" character written on it.
It reveals a warm scene, because of these words, the meaning has completely changed.
After the fat man in the ball suit entered the old stockade, his whole state changed. He was relaxed and seemed to enjoy the atmosphere here.
Ah Ming looked down at Ji Siwei, and said softly, "Sure enough, as you said, there is another space here."
"It's unbelievable..." Li Yin's Adam's apple slipped uneasily, and said in a barely audible voice: "The one who lives in the house can't be..."
"Captain! Captain! Where are you?"
Before Li Yin finished speaking, Ah Er suddenly yelled like crazy.
Seeing this, Ah Si also called out loudly: "Captain! Come out quickly! We are here!"
Ji Siwei's face darkened: "I made a mistake, cover their mouths."
I almost forgot that not all NPCs in this world are kind enough to help them complete tasks.
Knowing the location of the evil spirits in the old village, they still shouted loudly, which was too obvious for the dungeon.
Recalling the reminder given by the captain before leaving, Li Yin and the little mute reacted quickly and covered the mouths of the two villagers with force.
However, these two young villagers were both physically strong, and when they struggled, even Li Yin couldn't suppress them.
Ah Er even threw the little mute directly over his shoulder to the ground.
The little mute was stunned by the fall, lying on the ground and making a fuzzy gasp in pain.
"Why don't you let us find the captain!" Ah Er sneered, sitting on the little mute, raised his fist and was about to hit the little mute on the head.
The next moment, Ah Er rolled his eyes and fell on the little mute.
Ji Siwei retracted the black long knife silently, hiding his achievements and fame.
It turned out that he hit Ah Er on the back of the neck with the back of the knife, knocking Ah Er unconscious.
The little mute was almost seriously injured, so he pushed Ah Er away, stood up rubbing his elbows, and gave Ji Siwei a grateful look.
On the other side, Ah Ming helped Li Yin suppress Ah Si, and stuffed the face scarf into Ah Si's mouth to silence his voice.
Then he untied their belts and tied Ah Er and Ah Si's hands and feet.
Before everyone had time to breathe a sigh of relief, they found that a "person" was alarmed by their movements and walked out of the nearest house!
A long and narrow mask appeared in front of his eyes. On the mask was a crooked face, and there were red and blue strange totems on it. Behind the mask was a short, dark man, holding a bag with his slender fingers. A crooked cane with two women's heads on it.
This strange man also tied a package with a rope and carried it behind his back, with a bamboo basket above it to protect him from the rain.
The people living in the house are indeed not normal people!
The strange person walked with her legs spread apart, inexplicably looking a bit like a crab. She took two steps and stopped suddenly.
Everyone subconsciously held their breath and remained motionless.
"Strange, I heard some movement just now, why is there no one at the moment."
Hoarse and low, it sounded like the voice of an old lady.
"Ah, so you are here..." The strange mother-in-law paused, and the mask turned to the direction of the fat man in the ball uniform: "Why is your breath so weak, I almost didn't see you."
"Why did you wake up so early? Stop wandering outside, go home quickly..."
The fat man in the ball suit tilted his head and opened his mouth to reveal a happy smile.
Maybe it was because they wanted to eat alone, but the evil spirits in the fat man's body did not reveal their existence.
This made Ji Siwei secretly heave a sigh of relief.
After the strange mother-in-law finished speaking, she shook her head and walked back on crutches.
It turned out that the basket behind her was hollowed out, and there were two small black balls inside. There was a black tentacles on the head of the small balls, and the black and white eyes were looking out curiously.
Fortunately, these two little balls are "blind" like the strange mother-in-law.
They were clearly in front of the strange mother-in-law, but she could only see the fat man in the ball uniform.
This shows that the captain's hint is correct, and the ghosts here can only tell the location of humans by sound.
And Fatty... not quite a person now.
One window after another was opened, and one black head after another wearing a narrow mask protruded from the inside.
"They" seemed to have just woken up, poked their heads curiously, and asked in a hurry:
"Master, I seem to hear something?"
"what happened?"
"Is there any more food coming in?"
"When you talk about food, I'm hungry...hehe..."
Looking at the densely packed masks that suddenly appeared, everyone's hair went numb instantly, and even their fine hairs stood on end.
You can only restrain yourself and don't make a sound.
"It's okay, it's okay..." The strange mother-in-law waved her hand: "It's just a little doll playing on the road..."
Looking carefully at the red and blue masks with different expressions, Ji Siwei felt a chill in his heart, thinking of the masks that fell from the attic of the old house.
The style of that mask is very similar to the mask worn by the weirdo here.
Every event in this dungeon is indeed connected!
The monster in the attic of the old house probably slipped out of this old village.
Moreover, the evil spirit on the fat man in the ball uniform has been very excited since entering the old stockade, and even said "go home", so it is likely to live here as well.
And the reason why they left the old village only recently and went to the new Linan Ancient Village should be related to the change in the Jiuwei Temple.
Ji Siwei only felt that the thoughts in his mind became clearer——
Those disordered death conditions suddenly had a common point.
The first death condition - cannot answer when the "stranger" on the road calls his name.This is a reminder from the patriarch.
The second death condition - during the sacrifice process, the mask cannot be dropped.This is a reminder from the villager who sent the mask over.
The third death condition - when sleeping at night, the slippers cannot be placed outside the door, and the toes of the shoes are facing inward.This is a reminder from the patriarch.
The fourth death condition - when others call their name, they cannot answer. This is the patriarch's reminder.
The fifth death condition - after entering the gate of the old village, you can't make a loud noise, this is the captain's reminder.
Regardless of whether they have triggered the corresponding death conditions or not, what is certain is that these death conditions are all spoken from key NPCs!
Although the piranhas encountered on the way were dangerous, no one was seriously injured or died because they did not trigger the death condition.The death of two NPCs may be just to create an atmosphere to scare them, or to reduce the number of NPCs.
Straightening out his train of thought, Ji Siwei wanted to discuss it with Ah Ming, but the current environment did not allow it.
The masked black monsters put their heads back, but the windows stayed open.
"They" appear to have just woken up and may be out and about next.
In this case, if everyone wants to find a small map in a huge town, the danger and difficulty will be greatly increased.
Everyone was watching the strange mother-in-law leave, and it was so quiet that only some voices in the village could be heard.
Seeing that the strange mother-in-law was about to return to the door, Ah Er, who was knocked out by Ji Siwei, suddenly woke up and groaned in pain.
"It's so uncomfortable..." Ah Er half-opened his eyes and gasped.
Ah Er fainted before, Ah Ming didn't gag him.
It's over.
A gust of night wind blew past, and Li Yin's back felt chilly, and belatedly realized that his back was wet with sweat.
Before Ji Siwei had time to knock the bastard out again, he felt a black shadow jumping in front of him.
Taking a closer look, I saw that the strange mother-in-law had already come in front of Ah Er, her masked face approached in front of Ah Er, and her slender, dark fingers were strangling his throat.
His finger stuck into Ah Er's neck, and bright red blood flowed out.
"Ghost! Ghost!! Help! Help me!" Ah Er yelled heart-piercingly, his dead fish eyes widening in horror.
This result was Ah Er's own fault, and everyone felt unwavering in their hearts, watching the NPC acting silently.
The two little black balls jumped out of the back basket and landed on Ah Er's body. With an "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
"It's unpalatable, it's unpalatable..." The little black ball made a childish voice, and spat out the bitten flesh in disgust.
"I'm unpalatable, don't eat me, I'll tell you where the others are, can you let me go?" Ah Er blurted out in unbearable pain.
The ghosts in the stilt building were alarmed again, and masked faces peeked out of the windows.
But Ji Siwei and his party were shocked by Ah Er's words.
Originally eating melons, a big pot suddenly came from the sky.
Fuck, were they sold by NPCs?
What kind of shit is this!
Li Yin glared at Ah Er fiercely, and complained wildly in his heart: Can I complain to the dungeon NPC to play me!
The strange mother-in-law gave a strange laugh, and asked quietly, "Then tell me, where are they?"
I really agreed!
Everyone: It must be because I did not do well enough to encounter such a bad dungeon QAQ.
There is a strange mother-in-law in the front, and there are a lot of evil spirits in the back, and there is no clue on the map. Now running will make a big noise, and if you don't run, you will definitely be betrayed by Ah Er.
It's so hard.
Ah Er grabbed the wrist of the strange mother-in-law and said with difficulty: "They are right behind you, there are five of them in total!"
"Oh..." The strange mother-in-law laughed fiercely, and twisted Ah Er's neck with force with her fingers.
The strange mother-in-law stood up, and the double-headed crutches hit the floor heavily.
After three sounds, the two women on the crutches widened their eyes and let out a sharp cry, and a large number of vague shadows floated out from the tall building.
If you look closely, you can see that there are all human-shaped black shadows wearing long and narrow masks. They were summoned and surrounded the open space in front of the archway.
"where?"
"Where's the food?"
"Food...I want food..."
The evil spirits made greedy sounds, and stretched out their black hands to grope in the air, and they were about to touch them.
Is it strange that the mother-in-law's knocking means: There is food here, come quickly?
The little mute's hands began to tremble.
Li Yin was also suppressing his fear.
Although the death conditions were not triggered, the evil spirits could not kill them logically.
But in such a horrible situation, it is impossible for them to keep silent.
There are too many opponents, and there are more and more, there is almost no chance of winning.
Ji Siwei's mind was running fast, thinking about the solution, when he was frowning and trying to look up at the sky at a 45° angle, he suddenly saw the three big characters "Ghost Gate" written on the top of the archway in bright red!
He twisted his neck with difficulty, making sure that it said "Gate of Hell".
A white light flashed through his mind, and Ji Siwei instantly understood.
It turns out that the archway in this space is the real ghost gate! !
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